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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 03 Jan 2013

Promised Land is an involving and timely tale that explores the changing nature and complex challenges of rural life…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Jan 2013

There's also reason to worry when a simplistic movie like this one takes on an issue of overarching importance to the nation's future…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 03 Jan 2013

Promised Land can say whatever it wants about fracking and the environment and big corporate business…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 03 Jan 2013

Smart, sincere, and timely, with thoughtful, intelligent performances by everyone, until it goes completely off the rails at the end…

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By Ann Lewinson (45) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 03 Jan 2013

Lacking confidence that these didactic speeches will drive its message home, the film throws in a paranoid plot twist from which it never recovers…

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By Jeff Beck (630) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 03 Jan 2013

Promised Land ends up being about two-thirds of a decent film, despite having problems with its characters…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 03 Jan 2013

This is Damon and Krasinski's soapbox. And while there is little doubt about where their sympathies lie, they are rarely preachy while telling us…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 03 Jan 2013

A well-intentioned look at a fraught issue, but the Damon-Krasinski screenplay ultimately opts for Hollywood oversimplification…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 03 Jan 2013

A love triangle involving the two men and a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt) seems more like a commercial necessity than an integral…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Jan 2013

Urgent, heartfelt, and not-quite-as-predictable-as-you-think environmental rabble-rouser…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 02 Jan 2013

Just as underhanded as the soulless corporations it's taking to task…

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By Scott Renshaw (514) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 02 Jan 2013

It's thrilling to watch a movie you expect to go in one very specific direction instead offer the prospect of something fascinatingly different…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for MSN Movies (470) on 02 Jan 2013

One of several ways this ... picture falls short is in trying to sell a personal-salvation story as a salve to the conundrum it presents…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for tonymacklin.net (414) on 02 Jan 2013

Promised Land is no Good Will Hunting (1997)…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 31 Dec 2012

It collapses on all fronts, delivering hot-button platitudes and just-add-water character development…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 31 Dec 2012

Promised Land offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 29 Dec 2012

It's Mitt Romney in blue jeans, this Promised Land, and we've all had enough of that…

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By Jonathan Lack (87) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 29 Dec 2012

The film wants to be meaningful, wants to have topical significance and emotional heft, but it arrives mostly empty, and in a year filled with…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Dec 2012

Promised Land is a fine place to start appreciating Matt Damon, who always makes it seem as if everybody else is acting and he's just going…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 28 Dec 2012

Unfortunately, much of what's good about Promised Land is easily forgotten as a result of the preachy, impossible-to-swallow final 15 minutes…

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